Reimagining America
Subtitle: a theological critique of the American mythos and biblical hermeneutics
By: by Charles Mabee.
Series: Studies in American biblical hermeneutics ;; [1]
Publisher: Mercer
Published: 1985
Place of publication: [Macon, Ga.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- United States.; United States -- Religion.; United States -- Intellectual life.
Description: "'The American character," Charles Mabee writes, "is grounded in the metaphor of universal scientific and technological experiment," an experiment in which some may see God at work and others may not. Americans are a "religious" people, but they are also "scientific." Both theologicans and scientists must confront the antagonism between the "particularistic" world view inherited from the Judeo-Christian tradition and the "fundamentally universal orientation" of science. Modern study of the Bible, grounded in "scientific method," has liberated the text from the imperatives of ecclesiastical dogma; it's practitioners "have constructed elaborate safeguards against subjective interpretation." Yet the subjective component of biblical study remains - " only now the name of this component is science itself . . ." -- Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.